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Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

My SIBO Treatment Protocol

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5774 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth, aka SIBO, is a common cause of digestive symptoms; gas, bloating, constipation/diarrhea, reflux and abdominal pain. It is also a common cause of IBS. This case reviews how you can become symptom free after treating SIBO. Also, and possibly more important, is that we do not always need to reach a “true negative” on the breath test to be symptom free and feeling great.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.

0:15.2

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0:22.9

That's DRR-R-U-S-C-I-O.com.

0:27.0

The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat

0:32.2

any disease.

0:33.3

Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.

0:37.1

Now let's head to the show.

0:42.2

Hey guys, just wanted to give you the fast facts for this episode, which is essentially me

0:48.1

walking through my CBO treatment protocol for a recent patient who had some very nice results with CBO.

0:57.0

You can see the transcript for the specifics of my protocol. It's a little bit long actually

1:02.0

for the fast facts, but you can see that along with her lab tests. In short, we used herbal

1:08.0

antimicrobials with biofilm agents and then the elemental diet and then a combination of the two.

1:13.6

The more important aspect of successful treatment is monitoring by and working with your doctor in order to personalize the available treatments.

1:22.6

Principles are more important than protocols in successful treatment. And we really elaborate on that concept.

1:29.3

And I think especially for the practitioners listening,

1:32.3

that's an important thing to hear.

1:34.3

And hopefully it'll be helpful for you.

1:36.3

And then we also introduce the concept

1:38.3

of prebiotic responders in SIBO,

1:41.3

which is something I'm starting to notice in the clinic.

1:44.8

All right.

1:45.3

Hope you enjoy it, and I hope it helps.

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